Pulse and Multicell Storm Structure on Radar

Storm-scale multicell thunderstorms may often look like the ones in the example below. In this case, each individual reflectivity core lasted for only one to two volume scans. The range rings are spaced at 25 km, showing that these clusters of rather intense reflectivity cores do indeed occur on the meso-γ scale. Some of these particular cells are pulse severe storms.

Radar reflectivity image of storm-scale multicell thunderstorms.

Radar reflectivity image of storm-scale multicell thunderstorms.